March 2009
7 posts
Completely Unprepared
I was going to post something rather crotchety about Rabbi Alan Lew’s memoir One God Clapping: The Spiritual Path of a Zen Rabbi but then I looked at the website for his synagogue, which is full of much better things he’s written for sermons and talks, and found out that he died in January. He was not that old and I always rather liked his writing so I found it a little shocking.
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The list thus far...
We’re up to 11!
Dance Hall of the Dead, Tony Hillerman.
Amphigorey, Edward Gorey.
12 Days on the Road: The Sex Pistols and America, Noel E. Monk and Jimmy Guterman.
Modigliani, James Martin Gray.
Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters, Robert Beverly Hale.
Why Do They Kill Me?, Tim Kreider.
Klee Wyck, Emily Carr.
Emily Carr and Her Dogs, Emily Carr.
Art and the Sacred, Sister...
February 2009
2 posts
By the way:
Gave in, am only counting anthologies of tiny picture books as one book. The real list thus far:
Dance Hall of the Dead, Tony Hillerman.
Amphigorey, Edward Gorey.
12 Days on the Road: The Sex Pistols and America, Noel E. Monk and Jimmy Guterman.
Modigliani, James Martin Gray.
Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters, Robert Beverly Hale.
Why Do They Kill Me?, Tim Kreider.
Klee Wyck, Emily...
Tempting me and yet:
Problems concentrating. Am reading awful Sid Vicious biography just because I thought it would be easy and pad out my numbers even though as you can see it isn’t doing the job. Following are books on my Soon-I-Hope List:
John Stubbs, John Donne: The Reformed Soul Antoine du Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand, and Stars Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water
Books I really should finish because I...
January 2009
5 posts
